List of wars involving Yemen

This is a list of wars that Yemen has been involved in.

North Yemen

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Saudi–Yemeni War
(1934)
Yemen Saudi Arabia Defeat
  • Yemeni invasion of Saudi Arabia repelled.
North Yemen Civil War
(19621970)
Yemen Royalists
Saudi Arabia
Yemen Arab Republic Republicans
 Egypt
Regime change
Yemenite War of 1972
(1972)
 North Yemen  South Yemen Cease-fire
  • Yemen's pledge to unify
NDF Rebellion
(19781982)
 North Yemen Yemen Arab Republic NDF Victory
  • Defeat of the National Democratic Front
Yemenite War of 1979
(1979)
 North Yemen  South Yemen Cease-fire
  • Yemen's re-pledge ambition to unify

South Yemen

Unified Yemen

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Yemeni Civil War
(1994)
 Yemen People's Democratic Republic of Yemen South Yemen Victory
  • Reunification of Yemen.
Hanish Islands Crisis
(1995)
 Yemen  Eritrea Defeat
  • Eritrean occupation of the Hanish island.
Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
(1998-2015)
 Yemen
United States
al-Qaeda
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State
Escalation into full-scale civil war with foreign intervention
  • In December 2014, ISIL establishes a presence in Yemen, bringing it into conflict against AQAP[1]
Houthi insurgency in Yemen (20042015)
Yemeni Civil War
(2015)
Yemen Hadi government
 Saudi Arabia
 UAE
 Bahrain
 Kuwait
 Qatar
 Jordan
 Morocco
 Egypt
 Sudan
Yemen Houthi government Ongoing
  • Houthis dissolve Yemeni government.
  • Houthis take control of northern Yemen.
South Yemen insurgency
(2009-2015)
 Yemen People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Southern Movement Escalated into a full-scale civil war with foreign intervention
  • Separatist insurgency in southern Yemen

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